From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Jishnu Mukerji  wrote:   
      
   >I don't think anyone really believes that the EWR station was a   
   >boondoggle. PANYNJ might want to operate it sufficiently incompetently   
   >to make it look like a boondoggle given their inherent anti-rail bias,   
   >and they may be succeeding at it at least with hancock.   
      
   According to Amtrak's Great American Station site, it opened in 2001,   
   and cost more than $400 million. This New York Times articles says   
   $415 million for terminal, track for AirTrain extension to the Corridor,   
   and six new consists. I've got to believe the $415 million included the   
   Corridor train station.   
      
   The original intramural route cost $354 million when it opened in 1996,   
   and had needed substantial repairs over the first several years, one of   
   which cost $25 million and shut it down for three months.   
      
   http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/22/nyregion/road-and-rail-newark-   
   -train-to-the-plane.html   
      
   I'll call it a boondoggle; haven't seen the price tag on the most recent   
   repair work. I think your suggestion about routing intercity trains directly   
   to air terminals would have been cheaper.   
      
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